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The following are quotes taken from reviews:

“Beck’s work reminds us that dream space is another geography, besides the artist’s studio, where nudity is right at home.”
Jonathan Kamholtz, 2017

“Beck suggests that the nude genre itself is possibly more susceptible than one may think…and in actuality able to be redefined or modified. The Hunter assumes that historical precedents are merely guidelines and not rules.”
Hunter Kissel, 2017

“Martin Beck [is] an illusionistic realist who paints with flair and often a social conscience. ”
Dan Bischoff, 2001

“His intelligent [paintings] are filled with wry commentary about our Postmodern era. His use of recognizable imagery is comforting and inviting to the viewer, despite the bizarre content of the dramas enacted in his compositions.”
Elaine A. King, 2000

“[Beck] functions as a type of trickster who comprehends the power of surprise and camouflage.”
Elaine A. King, 1998

“Beck’s diligent focus on humanitarian social consciousness calls to mind such French independents as Daumier, Millet and Courbet who constituted the fountainhead of liberal thinking in the 19th Century.”
Elaine A. King, 1998

“Mr. Beck seems determined to take America’s pulse at the end of the century, and it races.”
William Zimmer, 1998

“This artist is not afraid to paint at the top of his lungs.”
Dan Bischoff, 1998

“[Beck’s] individuals are either unhappily sexualized or awkwardly self aware, or both. They strain under the demands of pleasure, always terrified that they will reveal some forbidden part of their private psyches.”
Richard Huntington, 1996

“…their humor and energy succeeds whether or not they want to be hip.”
Matthieu Victor, 1996

“Beck depicts a world that is gleefully anti-ritualistic.”
Jim Flahaven, 1995

“There’s a frightening surreal quality In some of Beck’s work. In some of his pictures, figures seem to be coming out of the paintings to join the living. ”
Jerry Stein, 1995